Alabi disclosed this Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
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The command in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, noted that okada riders are in the habit of violently attacking any motorist involved in an accident with their member, and in most cases preventing accident victims from being taken to hospital for medical attention.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the deceased motorcyclist lost his life while attempting to resist arrest by members of the task force put in place by Sagamu Local Government Council after allegedly driving against traffic.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Lagos State Police Command had on December 4, announced restriction of movement in Somolu, Kosofe, Epe, Ikorodu, and Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Areas for the Lagos-East by-elections.
The protest turned violent on Tuesday in Second Rainbow area of Mile 2 when operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and other Offences made to enforce the law banning the commercial motorcyclists on some roads.
Eyewitnesses told the News Agency of Nigeria that the incident occurred at Baale Junction in Owode area of Ibeshe in Ikorodu area of Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that crisis erupted in Abakaliki on April 26 when Sgt. Onyebuchi Nweke shot and killed a commercial motorcyclist, Ejike Offim, over alleged refusal to offer him N50.
The governor, who announced the ban at the end of the State Security Council meeting, added that the ban would take effect from June 17
The policemen, in an attempt to enforce the new Lagos State traffic law restricting the movement of commercial motorcycle riders, popularly known as okada, shot Atilola who was attempting to flee from arrest
Adeyemi, who spoke on Monday against the backdrop of the violent protest of the ban of okada on 475 routes in the state, urged security operatives to halt the protest by the commercial motorcycle operators